NURS 1103 or HLSC 2613

1. NURS 1103 or HLSC 2613 Medical Terminology

2. WelcomeCourse Faculty Larry Hurst

3. Main Objective:Learn Medical Terminology • New students to Medical Terminology often bewildered by strange spelling and pronunciation. • Approximately 75% of Medical Terms are based on either Greek or Latin

4. Medical TerminologyMispronunciations • Artery - The study of fine paintings. • Barium - What you do when CPR fails. • Benign - What you are after you be eight. • Coma - A punctuation mark. • Morbid - A higher offer. • Urine - opposite of you’re out. • Tablet - A small table.

5. Course Description • A study of physiological systems approach to provide principles of medical word building. Provides medical vocabulary including anatomy, physiology, systems, diagnostic testing and pharmacology. This course is appropriate for health care administration, health science students such as nursing, dental hygiene, paramedics, and physical therapy assisting; as well as court reporting and medical transcriptionist students.

6. Course Objectives • Apply basic principles of medical word building. • Correctly pronounce medical terms. • Define common medical terms. • Relate common medical terms to human anatomy and physiology; common disease states, pharmacological categories and diagnostic tests. • Identify the medical terminology in medical record reports.

7. 16 Lessons • 1. Basic Elements of a Medical Word • 2. Suffixes: Surgical, Diagnostic, etc • 3. Suffixes: Adjective, Noun, Diminutive • 4. Prefixes • 5. Body Structure • 6. Integumentary System • 7. Gastrointestinal System

8. Lessons, continued • 8. Respiratory System • 9. Cardiovascular System • 10. Blood, Lymph, and Immune Systems • 11. Musculoskeletal System • 12. Genitourinary System • 13. Female Reproductive System • 14. Endocrine System

9. Lessons, continued • 15. Nervous System • 16. Special Senses

10. A Busy Course! • Are you feeling like a lot of information is about to come your way? • The answer is YES.

11. Now, lets begin Chapter 1 Basic Elements of Medical Word

12. Medical Dictionary Use Look Up Unfamiliar Terms

13. Word Roots (WR) • Usually derived form Greek or Latin • Frequently indicates a body part • Most medical terms have one or more word roots

14. Examples of Word Roods

15. Combining Forms (CF) • Combining Form (CF) is a Word Root (WR) plus a vowel, usually an “o” • Usually indicates a body part

16. Combining Forms Examples • Cardi/ + o = cardi/o heart • gastr/ + o = gastr/o stomach • hepat/ + o = hepat/o liver • nephr/ + o = nephr/o kidney • oste/ + o = oste/o bone

17. Suffixes • Word Ending • Suffix usually indicates a procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech • Usually derived from Greek or Latin

18. Examples of Suffix • Arthr/o -centesis Arthrocentesisjoint puncture puncture of a joint • throac/o -tomy Thoracotomychest incision incision of the chest • gastr/o -megaly Gastromegalystomach enlargement enlargement of the stomach

19. Prefixes • Word element located at the beginning of a word • Changes the meaning of the word • Usually indicates a number, time, position, direction, color, or sense of negation

20. Examples of Prefix • A- mast -ia without breast condition • hyper- therm -ia excessive heat condition • intra- muscul -ar in muscle relating to

21. Basic Rule One • A WR (word root) is used before a suffix that begins with a vowel.Scler/ + osis = sclerosis

22. Basic Rule Two • A combining vowel is used to link a WR to a suffix that begins with a consonant and to link a WR to another WR to form a compound wordcolon/o + scope = colonscopeosteo/ o/ chondr/ itis = osteochondritis

23. Defining Medical Words • First, define the suffix or ending • Second, define the prefix, or beginning • Third, define the middle

24. Pronunciation Guidelines • Ae and oe • c and g • e and es • ch • I • pn • ps

25. End of Chapter One